The hunt takes the viewer on two hunts to the Omo Valley, in the southwest, for lesser kudu, tiang, Guenther’s dik-dik, Newmann’s hartebeest; and the Munessa forest and the Balé Mountains southeast of Addis Ababa, for mountain nyala (two) and Menelik’s bushbuck.

This short film is Peter Flack’s attempt to capture the essence of his safari f.......

The hunt takes the viewer to the Kalahari Gemsbok Park and Etosha Pan in the southwest for gemsbok; Omitara, in the north for springbok; and the Waterberg, in the northeast for black-faced impala and Damarland dik-dik.

This short film is Peter Flack’s attempt to capture the essence of his safari for his family. As such, it is much more than.......

There's been some buzz floating around the world hunting community about a "new" trophy species, the "Anatolian gazelle" hunted in Turkey. When we recently received our first subscriber report focused on this animal, from subscriber Craig Power, who hunted with outfitter Temir Ekenler's WildHunting in Turkey (www.wildhuntingagency.com; info@wildhuntingagency.com; 011-90-532-614-55-99) this December, we asked Assistant Editor Justin Jones to look into the story behind the story. Here's his report...

What do a broken ankle, a lacerated cornea, and a debris-embedded abrasion all have in common? They are all non-life-threatening injuries that you would normally go to an emergency room to treat. But what happens if you break your ankle in remote mountains while hunting sheep?...

A day before going to press with this issue, we learned that the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) published a notice to bidders on those hunting blocks in Zambia. The notice appeared in the newspaper Times of Zambia on February 18, 2015. It listed only 11 operators and areas and stated that the notice does not constitute an award of contract but merely a recommendation for the award. All the bidders for the listed areas had a 10-day period to appeal. If no one challenged the allocations, the contracts for the areas should have been finalized by early March....

Last month, I told you that Chad had reopened to hunting and gave you some basic information on what was on offer. At the SCI convention in Las Vegas last month I caught up with Jean Pierre Bernon of Club Faune, who is operating those hunts...

Hunt reports from Central African Republic have just about dried up after continued civil instability in that country. The trouble started when the Seleka rebels marched south through the bush in late 2012 and took over the government in early 2013....

Leopard Legend Hunting Safaris (www.leopardlegend.com; info@leopardlegend.com; 011-264-81-236-0833) has acquired rights on the Sesfontein Conservancy in northwestern Namibia. This is a 650,000-acre area bordered on the west by Skeleton Coast National Park and on the east by the Hoanib River....

And on the heels of convention season, I need to repeat my warning to hunters about a recurring issue in Zimbabwe. Every year I hear from a hunter who booked a hunt to Zimbabwe through a safari operator from another country only to have big problems on the hunt....

Whitetail deer are big business in Texas and finding a deer hunt isn't really a problem. But when a Trophy Club member recently requested recommendations for a combination whitetail/exotic hunt in late January, things got a bit more difficult....

Trophy Club Member Robert Tonti asked us to look into a possible three-day hunt in South Texas for whitetail and possibly the "Three Amigos" exotics (scimitar-horned oryx, dama gazelle and addax), between January 23 and February 1, 2015. Tonti wanted his hunt within easy driving distance of San Antonio. A fenced operation would be acceptable....

The 2015 fall hunt permit drawing process is underway with different deadlines in each state. Below is a summary of the most important current and upcoming deadlines. As a planning tool, we maintain a complete listing of draw opportunities online.

In our January story on CITES permits we mentioned that wild goat and Siberian ibex had been listed by Pakistan as CITES Appendix III species, and as such will require CITES documentation for export. These species, Capra hircus aegagrus and Capra sibirica, include multiple popular game animals in Asia and the new listing may catch some hunters unaware.

In December 2013 we announced the upcoming publication of the CIC Caprinae Atlas of the World, an exhaustive two-volume work by Gerhard R. Damm (President, Applied Science Division of CIC) and Nicolas Franco (Honorary President of the CIC). The book was finally released at the 61st General Assembly of the CIC in Milan on April 21, 2014. ...

In a perfect world, the outfitter has all the logistics for a hunt in place before the client arrives, and everything goes according to plan. In remote wilderness areas this is not always how it happens, but good outfitters can adapt and make a hunt work even when difficulties arise....

It's always interesting when we get reports from multiple subscribers on hunts from the same area. We recently received two reports on essentially the same hunt in Nevada; one from 2013 and the second from 2014....

In Reports 9967 and 9968 subscribers Robert and Arlene Hanson tell us they enjoyed successful back-to-back hunts in Macedonia for Kri-Kri ibex and wolf and in Croatia for Dalmatian sheep and hybrid ibex....

Even a carefully planned and vetted hunt does not always meet the hunter's expectations. Subscriber W.B. Rodgers tells us that he had an unfavorable impression of Kessler Canyon in Colorado, following a week-long hunt and family vacation at the lodge....

We had never received a hunting report on the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan and or any details about hunting there before, so we sat up and took notice when one of our European subscribers sent us this link to an operation called Safari Outdoor Adventures (safari.uz; info@safari.uz; 011-998-71-150-35-53) which is, apparently attempting to re-open and develop sustainable sport hunting in that country.

Editor's Note: In Report 9970, correspondent Debra Sieloff tells us some Texas hunts offer much more than just big whitetail deer. She recently hunted Joshua Creek Ranch (www.joshuacreek.com; 830-537-5090), an Orvis and Beretta Endorsed lodge in Boerne, TX, where she discovered a free-range, whitetail deer or axis deer hunt opportunity that caters to groups of all abilities and families of all ages. Enjoy!

Across Africa word is that bookings were down due to the scares over Ebola and US State Department Travel Warnings over activities of terrorist groups such as Boko Haram and the Lord's Resistance Army....

Subscriber Scott Butterfield is not pleased with his unsuccessful Alberta sheep hunt with Kipp Kelley of George Kelly Outfitting. "We could not find a legal ram," says Butterfield. "I shot a black wolf, but, to date, I have not received it...

(Editor Note: Over the past month we have received reports on hunts in the following parts of the world. All of these reports have been added to our files and are available to you as an E-Mail Extra subscriber. Just click on the ID number for the report you would like to see and you can view the full text in our database. Enjoy!)

On Monday, February 2, 2015, Conservation Force met with Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), to argue our appeal of the denials of three 2014 import permits for elephant trophies from Tanzania and our Requests for Reconsideration of these denials. (SCI's related suit was recently dismissed for failure to first follow this administrative route.)

Barbara Crown, Traveling with your hunting firearm gets more difficult every year, thanks to ever-changing airline policies and government agency regulations. Right now, thousands of hunters are either finalizing travel plans for this fall or are about to get on a plane for the African safari season this summer. The question is: will their guns get to their final destination with them? Or will the airlines refuse to check them through?

Hunting the Spiral Horns - Kudu, the Top African Antelope, edited by Peter Flack, is the first in a five-book series covering all the spiral horns and is designed to be the definitive book on hunting the six species and su.......

Hunting Icons of Africa represents the culmination of Peter Flack's five decades of hunting dedicated to the African continent. Having experienced literally hundreds of safaris in 15 African countries, he is un.......

This is the second in a series of books about the spiral-horned antelopes of Africa. Peter Flack, with the help of many other authors, gives us a rich mosaic of the world's largest antelope, the eland. Hundr.......

Hunting the Spiral Horns: Bushbuck - The Little Big Buck, edited by Peter Flack, is the third in a five-book series covering all 30 spiral horn species and subspecies (recognized by both Rowland Ward.......

The hunt takes the viewer to the Rungwa River in the southeast for lion and sable; Masailand for fringe-eared oryx, Grant’s gazelle, gerenuk and Kirk’s dik-dik; along the Moyowasi and Malagarasi Rivers in the northwest for sitatunga and bushbuck; and a brief glimpse of the Selous for Lichtenstein’s hartebeest and Nyasa wildebeest.